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DOI Doctor — check & repair

Every DOI tested at doi.org and Crossref; dead links, abstracts, licences, ORCIDs.

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What Crossref holds about you

Your own public record, read back in under a minute — no account needed.

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DOIs for funding

Grants & funding awards — 1 of the 20 record types we register.

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DOIs for other research output

Theses & dissertations, reports & working papers, report series, standards, databases, datasets and figures, tables & supplements — 7 of the 20 record types we register.

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DOIs for books & conferences

Books, book chapters, book series, book sets, conference proceedings, proceedings series and conference papers — 7 of the 20 record types we register.

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DOIs for journals

Journal articles, journal titles, pending publications, peer reviews and preprints & posted content — 5 of the 20 record types we register.

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20 kinds of record, one DOI account, one place

Smart Scholars registers 20 kinds of record with Crossref — not journal articles alone, but books, chapters, conference papers, theses, datasets, standards and grants.

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Everything you can put a DOI on

Twenty kinds of record, not just articles - books, chapters, proceedings, theses, datasets, peer reviews, grants and more.

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Everything Smart Scholars runs

Nine sites, one account. A journal starts at the audit; an author starts at Scholar Shield.

What we do: DOIs registered from what a journal already has · Crossref records completed — references, abstracts, licences, ORCID iDs, affiliations and ROR IDs, funding · DOIs that resolve · articles preserved · journals rated on the public record · see everything we do →

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For journals & publishers

Start with the audit — ₹4,999 per journal, and the gate to everything else.

DOI care

Every service on one journal profile — each previews first and acts only on your approval.

  • DOI Doctor — check & repairevery DOI tested at doi.org and Crossref; dead links, abstracts, licences, ORCIDs
  • Smart Deposita new DOI from your PDF, Word file, article page, JATS XML or spreadsheet — every value shown with its source, deposited once you confirm it
  • DOI census (Excel)site against Crossref, both directions, with a copy-paste fix per article
  • Backfile DOIsDOIs for older articles that never had one — no per-DOI fee of ours
  • DOIs for conference proceedingsthe conference, the volume and every paper — registered in the organiser's own name
  • Scopus indexing guidethe minimum criteria, the 14 CSAB criteria and how a title is suggested — from Elsevier's own page
  • Embase indexing guidewhat Embase asks of a biomedical journal and how to suggest it
  • Write DOIs into OJSthe verified DOIs pushed onto your article pages through your own API
  • Silent-failure monitorweekly checks of site, OAI-PMH, Scholar tags, ISSN, preservation, hijack lists
  • Journal Radarevery journal, every day: SSL, DNS, redirects, robots.txt, OJS, DOIs, Crossref metadata, broken links — what broke since yesterday first
  • Verified metrics & badgesa public, dated, source-linked metrics page and a "cited by" badge
  • Quality dossier (PDF)one PDF for universities, authors and reviewers
  • Author citation enginethe citation steps emailed to each author from the journal's own mailbox
  • JATS XMLmachine-readable JATS per article
  • Duplicate articlesthe same paper published twice — you choose which copy stays

For authors & researchers

Free to use. Nothing you check is shared with the journal.

For institutions, sponsors & DOI operators

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What we can register a DOI for

20 kinds of record, one account, one place. Every one gets a DOI that resolves, metadata that indexes read, and a record that stays correct afterwards.

Journals

  • Journal articles
  • Journal titles
  • Pending publications
  • Peer reviews
  • Preprints & posted content

Books & conferences

  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Book series
  • Book sets
  • Conference proceedings
  • Proceedings series
  • Conference papers

Other research output

  • Theses & dissertations
  • Reports & working papers
  • Report series
  • Standards
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Figures, tables & supplements

Funding

  • Grants & funding awards

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